"Lord Admiral Nelson"", a reference to the fact that his body was preserved in a barrel of brandy after his death at Trafalgar. Most Messes attempt to furnish the night with military music and marches, with live bands if possible, or recorded music. Depending on how formal the ceremony is, the diners may be required to march to their seats. In recent times, Marines have established a variant of the mess in a ""field environment"", substituting in mess dress for utilities and combat equipment (to include camouflage facepaint), canteen cups, and tentage, while still retaining the formal nature of the"
"the time. Beatty had to preserve the Admiral's body for the voyage back to Britain, and decided to place it in a barrel of brandy. Beatty relates how gases from the corpse caused the barrel lid to open on 28 October 1805, alarming the posted marine guard. On arrival at Gibraltar, the barrel had to be topped up with spirits of wine because it had filled the cavities in the body. This incident may have led to the legend that British seamen had drunk the brandy surrounding the body. As ""Victory"" approached the Nore, Beatty performed an autopsy, removing the"
"and the painter Francis Davis Millet. Since baggage and personal items were not allowed aboard the lifeboats, Candee gave two precious items, an ivory cameo miniature of her mother and a small flask of brandy, to a male friend who had pockets. These were later retrieved from his floating remains and, in 2006, sold at auction for around $80,000 for the locket and $40,000 for the flask. Candee was able to board lifeboat 6 but fell and fractured her ankle in the process. Also aboard was first class passenger Margaret Brown (aka ""the unsinkable Molly Brown""); both women manned the"
"during the engagement. When the British fleet returned to Gibraltar with Nelson's body preserved in a barrel, it was into Rosia Bay, Gibraltar's sole deep water anchorage, that HMS ""Victory"" was towed. While denied by the Royal Navy, local lore has it that his body was taken ashore at the bay, for transfer from a barrel of brandy to a barrel of alcohol (spirit of wine), in preparation for the return to the United Kingdom. Rosia Bay Rosia Bay is the only natural harbour in Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. Formerly referred"
"to treat the crew. On the ship's return to England, the authorities ordered the captain to moor in Stangate Creek to avoid spread of the disease and a cutter was deployed to prevent anyone leaving the ship. Bernard continued to tend to the crew until he also caught it and died aged 27 on 9 October 1845. He was buried on Burntwick Island and his grave, isolated among the marshy grasslands, is still visible. The remains of a small house are also still visible on the island, home in the 1840s of shepherd James Woolley and his wife Sarah, and"
"could have reached it, although it would have been unlikely if he had been in a weakened state and in handcuffs. At the Cape of Good Hope Bryant's widow and her daughter Charlotte and the remaining four convicts were handed over to Commander John Parker of HMS ""Gorgon"", who was returning from Port Jackson. On this final leg of their journey back to England they received better treatment, with Mary being given a cabin to nurse her ailing daughter. Charlotte died on 6 May 1792 and was buried at sea. Also on the ""Gorgon"" were marines and their wives and"
"wreckage, tossed in stormy seas for days. Most died of exposure or, like Birch, were swept away to their deaths. Three men survived, aided by Birch's having held on to a silver cup. It was a gift from his superintendent, John Andrews, for his son and was engraved with ""John to Frank"". Birch gave the cup to George Dawson, a sailor who used it to collect rain water for drinking, and survived until rescue nine days later. After return to land, he gave the cup to Birch's widow, who gave him a reward. An inscribed monument to Birch was erected"
"some apiece and with their legs barely able to support their weight. ""Weolmi 306"" brought them to Honolulu, Hawaii and to a fine welcome. The Baileys returned to England and wrote an account of their ordeal entitled ""117 Days Adrift"" (published with the title ""Staying Alive!"" in the United States), which was published in 1974 by Adlard Coles Nautical. The following year, they returned to the sea in their new yacht, ""Auralyn II."" Maralyn Bailey died in 2002 at the age of 61. Maurice Bailey died in December 2017. Maurice and Maralyn Bailey Maurice and Maralyn Bailey were a British"
"into his headstone. Recently, another possibility has been raised. Among items left behind by Hartley's fiancée, Maria Robinson, was the sheet music of a third tune to the hymn written by Lewis Carey in 1902 and made popular by the Australian contralto Ada Crossley. As Crossley performed in both Britain and America, it is possible that this may have been a tune known to passengers on both sides of the Atlantic. Colonel Archibald Gracie, an amateur historian who was aboard the ship until the final moments, and was later rescued on a capsized collapsible lifeboat, wrote his account immediately after"
"the forehead. ""Who is that?"" asked Nelson, now barely able to see. ""It is Hardy"" Hardy replied. ""God bless you Hardy"" was Nelson's last response. ""Victory"" was towed to Gibraltar, arriving on 28 October 1805, where she underwent major repairs, before setting set sail for England on 4 November 1805 and arriving at Portsmouth on 5 December 1805. There Nelson's body was transferred to the Sheerness Commissioner, Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet's yacht ""Chatham"" to proceed to Greenwich. Hardy carried one of the banners at Nelson's funeral procession on 9 January 1806. Hardy was created a baronet on 29 January"
"to Westminster Abbey by bluejackets, with six admirals as pall-bearers and an escort of Royal Marines, their arms reversed, to the slow beat of muffled drums. That evening the body was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium. The following day, Fisher's ashes were taken by train to Kilverstone, escorted by a Royal Navy guard of honour, and were placed in the grave of his wife, underneath a chestnut tree, overlooking the figurehead of his first seagoing ship, . John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920), commonly known as Jacky"
"to display the body for visitors to pay their last respects. Another motive behind embalming at this time was to prevent the spread of disease while being able to prepare for burial without unseemly haste. After Lord Nelson was killed during the Battle of Trafalgar, his body was preserved in brandy and spirits of wine mixed with camphor and myrrh for over two months. At the time of his state funeral in 1805, his body was found to still be in excellent condition and completely plastic. Alternative methods of preservation, such as ice packing or laying the body on so"
"expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The trip was expected to last about three years, so the ships were packed with provisions which included more than 136,000 pounds of flour, 3,684 gallons of high-proof alcohol and 33,000 pounds of tinned meat, soup and vegetables. Braine died ten months into the expedition, and was buried on Beechey Island with John Torrington and John Hartnell. His corpse was in the worst condition, having been gnawed by rats before burial. Modern postmortem examinations suggested symptoms of tuberculosis and lead poisoning. However, other studies suggest tuberculosis was unlikely to have contributed to his death."
"to remember his father telling him, ""My child, when your mother comes for you, as she surely will, tell her that I loved her dearly and still do. Tell her I expected her to follow us, so that we might all live happily together in the peace and freedom of the New World."" The elder Navratil died in the sinking, and his body was recovered by the rescue ship, ""Mackay-Bennett"". In his pocket was a revolver. Because of his assumed Jewish surname, he was buried in Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, Halifax, a Jewish cemetery in Nova Scotia. While in Collapsible"
"unaided. Though its occupant did not survive, a shrapnel-ridden Carley float carried the body of an unknown man to land on Christmas Island in February 1942. The sun-bleached corpse had evidently spent a lengthy period at sea, though to this day it remains unknown from where the sailor had come. It has long been suspected that the body was that of a sailor from HMAS ""Sydney"", which was lost with all hands under mysterious circumstances off the coast of Australia on 19 November 1941. A second Carley float, more confidently believed to be from ""Sydney"", was recovered drifting 300 km"
"Mary's children perished of fever; Emanuel and William dying at Batavia on respectively 1 and 22 December 1791, whilst Charlotte died on the last leg of the voyage on 6 May 1792. Bryant and the other survivors - Allen, Broom alias John Butcher, Lillie, and Martin - arrived back in England on 18 June 1792. The punishment for escaping from transportation was generally death, but when they were brought before the Old Bailey on 7 July, they were all ordered to 'remain on their former sentence, until they should be discharged by course of law'. Their case was taken up"
"only other survivor was the seaman who had made his way to Rosevear on a piece of driftwood. He survived on the exposed island for 24 hours before being discovered by boatmen. A porter cask had found its way to the rock from the wreck. The seaman took a drink before emptying it to use as an overnight shelter. Ten bodies were found, including that of the woman who refused to leave her child. The casualties were buried on the island of St Mary's. The figurehead from the ship was salvaged and is now on display at Tresco Abbey Gardens."
"sumptuously in a Beacon Street mansion. For the five brief years of life that remained to him after his uncle's death in February 1738 he lived up to the name of one of his best ships: ""The Jolly Batchelor"". Writing to his London partners to inform them of his uncle's death, he also requested five pipes of Madeira wine: ""As this wine is for the use of my house, I hope you will be careful that I have the best."" Soon thereafter, he requested a ""handsome chariot"" emblazoned with the family crest, accompanied by a coachman unlikely ""to be debauched"
"and nursed back to health. Later Le Dain sent the best Jersey cow he could find in gratitude. He also named his son Edward Robert Hawker Le Dain born in 1854, and made Hawker and his wife godparents. The bodies of the other crewmen eventually washed up on the beach and were buried in Morwenstow Churchyard. For some 162 years the white, carved pitch-pine figurehead of the brig was preserved in the churchyard as the headstone of the ship's captain and crew. During that time it was subjected to occasional minor repairs and countless layers of white paint. In 2004"
"October 1870 to 29 November 1871 She was commissioned for the Channel Fleet at Chatham, and served therein until 1872. During the service she crossed the Atlantic in the company of carrying the remains of George Peabody, American merchant, financier and philanthropist, to the United States for burial. On her way home she sailed on one day a distance of , which fell short of the record set by by one nautical mile only. She paid off for refit, rejoining the Channel Fleet in 1874. In 1876 she was posted to the Mediterranean, where she served until 1885, with a"
"woman. As we rowed away from the ship, we could still hear the band playing, but now it was hymns. We were almost six hours in the lifeboat and during that time we had no water and nothing to eat. I kept wondering if my father had gotten off the ship, that's all I could think of. - 1995"" Her father did not survive and his body, if recovered, was never identified. Her last memory of him was that he was dressed in an Edwardian dinner jacket while smoking a cigar and sipping brandy on the deck as she and"
"that Barbara was the returned spirit (""markai"") of his recently deceased daughter. Barbara lived on Prince of Wales Island (""Muralug"") for five years and was called ""Gioma"" or ""Giom"" by her adopted family. On 16 October 1849, Barbara/Gioma managed to make contact with the British survey ship, HMS ""Rattlesnake"", at Evans Bay near Cape York and left with the ship. The ""Rattlesnake""'s artist, Oswald Walters Brierly, made detailed notes of her stay with the Kaurareg. ""Rattlesnake"" moored back in Sydney in February 1850, and Thompson was reunited with her family. Little is known about her later life. It is believed"
"of pleurisy during the voyage and was buried at sea. He was 43 years old at the time of his death. Antje Paarlberg continued to America with their children with this single thought in mind, ""De Heere zal wel zorgen"" or ""the Lord will provide"". The ship's captain offered to take Antje Paarlberg and her children back to the Netherlands but she refused to go. The determined 'Widow Paarlberg', as she is referred to in South Holland, persevered even after the youngest child also died. The baby was buried in a small cemetery near Lincoln Park. Antje and her remaining"
"stories, not too much more is known about him. It is unknown what he did for a living after leaving the sea behind forever. We also do not know much about his wife or any other members of his family. Yet, we do know that ""he died at his Southampton home at the age of 50 from pneumonia with his wife Annie at his side in 1937. He was buried at Saint John Churchyard in Membury, England."" History has given him the nickname of the unsinkable stoker, a name that is very fitting for his amazing stories of survival at"
"were dismissed as being problematic, a submarine was chosen as the method of delivering the corpse to the region. To transport the body by submarine, it needed to be contained within the body of the boat, as any externally mounted container would have to be built with a skin so thick it would alter the level of the waterline. The canister needed to remain airtight and keep the corpse as fresh as possible through its journey. Spilsbury provided the medical requirements and Cholmondeley contacted Charles Fraser-Smith of the Ministry of Supply to produce the container, which was labelled ""Handle with"
"with Coutinho and Cabral on board. They flew to the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago to resume the journey at the point where it had been interrupted. However, an engine problem forced them to once again make an emergency ditching in the middle of the ocean, where they drifted for nine hours until being saved by the nearby British cargo ship ""Paris City"", which carried them back to Fernando Noronha. A third Fairey III – baptized ""Santa Cruz"" by the wife of Epitácio Pessoa, the President of Brazil – was sent out, carried by the cruiser NRP ""Carvalho Araújo""."
"for themselves in the East. Fabricius's story was based on the actual logbook of 17th-century captain Willem Bontekoe (Hoorn, 1587–1657), detailing Bontekoe's journey to the Dutch East Indies between 1618 and 1625. During that trip one of the crew dropped a lit candle into a cask of brandy, which caused a fire that ultimately made the powder kegs explode. Fifty-five sailors, including the captain, survived and reached Batavia; Bontekoe managed to get home via China, almost being shipwrecked once more along the way. He returned to Hoorn, which he never left again; his journal became a bestseller. Fabricius was alerted"
"by Arthur Sullivan, at church, and his family were certain that he would have used that version, It is this tune's opening notes that appear on Hartley's memorial and that were played at his funeral. Hartley's body was recovered by the ""Mackay–Bennett"" almost two weeks after the sinking. Several press reports confirmed that Wallace was found ""fully dressed with his music case strapped to his body"". He was transferred to the ""Arabic"" and returned to England. Hartley's father Albion met the ship at Liverpool and brought his son's body back to his home town of Colne, Lancashire. The funeral took"
"duty"", and when he returned, Nelson's voice had faded and his pulse was very weak. He looked up as Beatty took his pulse, then closed his eyes. Scott, who remained by Nelson as he died, recorded his last words as ""God and my country"". Nelson died at half-past four, three hours after he had been shot. Nelson's body was placed in a cask of brandy mixed with camphor and myrrh, which was then lashed to the ""Victory's"" mainmast and placed under guard. ""Victory"" was towed to Gibraltar after the battle, and on arrival the body was transferred to a lead-lined"
"for amateur performers. He is a gentleman."" According to ""Yachting World"", Shelley was a member of the prestigious and exclusive Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Shelley died in 1889 and was buried in the family vault in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Bournemouth, reputedly with the heart of his father alongside him. In that vault, in addition to the patrilineal family, lie the remains of his maternal grandparents, namely Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; Shelley and his wife were instrumental in moving their bones from St Pancras Old Church in London. The Shelley baronetcy"
"Maurice and Maralyn Bailey Maurice and Maralyn Bailey were a British couple who, in 1973, survived for 117 days on a rubber raft in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued. Maralyn Bailey was born Maralyn Harrison on 24 April 1941 in Nottingham, England. Maralyn and Maurice married in 1963. The Baileys' journey began when they left Southampton, England, in their yacht ""Auralyn."" Their intended destination was New Zealand. They passed safely through the Panama Canal in February and were on their way to the Galapagos Islands. At dawn on 4 March 1973, their yacht was struck by a whale and"
"of brandy, or rum, to allow transport back to England. Upon arrival, however, the story goes that the cask was opened and found to be empty of brandy/rum. The pickled body was removed and, upon inspection, it was discovered that the sailors had drilled a hole in the bottom of the cask and drunk all the brandy/rum. Thus, this tale serves as a basis for the term ""Nelson's blood"" being used to describe brandy/rum. It also serves as the basis for the term tapping the admiral being used to describe surreptitiously sucking liquor from a cask through a straw. The"
"He was reported as having fought to the end, until when almost alone on the quarter-deck, he was hit by a musket-ball in the throat. He staggered into the captain's cabin and was found by the Dutch lying dead on the table. His body was carried to Zeeland and embalmed by Frederik Ruysch, before being placed on public display in the Grote Kerk in The Hague for a time. It was returned to England in August and interred in Westminster Abbey, where a monument to his memory was raised. Berkeley died unmarried, a proposal he had made to Sir John"